The return of the theorists : dialogues with great thinkers in international relations

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The return of the theorists : dialogues with great thinkers in international relations

edited by Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten and Hidemi Suganami

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Contemporary International Relations is as much a conversation between the living and the dead as it is among the living. Its debates are thoroughly rooted in and shaped by the thought of many bygone minds, both ancient and modern. With this in mind, The Return of the Theorists presents forty imagined dialogues with foundational theorists. They run the gamut from Homer and Confucius to Hedley Bull and Jean Bethke Elshtain, and span almost three millennia of human history, comprising representatives of a variety of cultures. The interviewers consist of more than forty international relations scholars and political theorists. They too cut across cultures, continents and almost three generations, and each is an expert on the work of the thinker invited. The Return of the Theorists will be of interest to anyone who has tried to enter the mind of bygone thinkers in political thought and International Relations.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Editors 1. Homer (c. 850 BCE)
  • Richard Ned Lebow 2. Conversations with Confucius (551-479 BCE)
  • Pichamon Yeophantong 3. Lao Zi (6th-5th century BCE?): Dao of International Politics
  • Chen Yudan 4. Thucydides (c.460 - c. 395 BCE): A Theorist for All Time
  • Richard Ned Lebow 5. Discussing War with Plato (429 - 347 BCE)
  • Christopher Coker 6. Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE): The Philosopher and the Discipline
  • Anthony F Lang, Jr. 7. Two Realisms of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
  • Erica Benner 8. Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
  • Michael C. Williams 9. An Interview with John Locke (1632-1704)
  • Beate Jahn 10. Two Days in the Life of 'Dave' Hume (1711 - 1776)
  • Hidemi Suganami 11. The Dangers of Dependence: Sultan's Conversation with his Master Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
  • David Boucher 12. Immanuel Kant (1724 -1804): A Little Kantian 'Schwaermerei'
  • Friedrich Kratochwil 13. A Fine Bromance: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) and Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
  • Sean Molloy 14. G.W.F. Hegel (1770 -1831) and International Relations
  • Richard Beardsworth 15. A Brief Encounter with Major-General Carl von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831)
  • Jan Willem Honig 16. A Conversation with Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) on why there is no Socialism in the United States
  • Joshua Simon 17. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
  • Tracy B. Strong 18. Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)
  • Bertrand Badie 19. Theory Talk #-100: John Dewey (1859 - 1952) on the Horror of Making his Poetry Public
  • Christian Bueger and Peer Schouten 20. Max Weber (1864 - 1920)
  • Richard Ned Lebow 21. The Republic of Norman Angell (1872 - 1967): A Dialogue (with apologies to Plato)
  • Lucian Ashworth 22. Functionalism in Uncommon Places: Electrifying the Hades with David Mitrany (1888 - 1975)
  • Jens Steffek 23. Dialogue with Arnold Wolfers (1892 - 1968)
  • James W. Davis 24. E. H. Carr (1892 - 1982)
  • Mick Cox 25. Modernity, Technology and Global Security: A Conversation with Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
  • Rens van Munster and Casper Sylvest 26. More Fragments of an Intellectual Biography: Hans J. Morgenthau (1904-1980)
  • William E. Scheuerman 27. The Return of the Spectateur Engage: Interview with Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983)
  • Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia 28. Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
  • Kimberly Huntchings 29. Interview with John Herz (1908 - 2005)
  • Andrew Lawrence 30. Interview with Charles P. Kindleberger (1910 - 2003), The Reputed Progenitor of Hegemonic Stability Theory
  • Simon Reich 31. Karl Deutsch (1912 - 1992) Interviewed
  • Andrei Markovits 32. International Theory beyond the Three Traditions: A Student's Conversation with Martin Wight (1913 - 1972)
  • Ian Hall 33. John Rawls (1921 - 2002)
  • Huw L. Williams 34. The Spirit of Susan Strange (1923-1998)
  • Louis Pauly 35. Questioning Kenneth N. Waltz (1924 - 2013)
  • Hidemi Suganami and Adam Humphreys 36. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
  • Rita Abrahamsen 37. Deep Hanging Out with Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
  • Iver Neumann 38. Interviewing Pierre Bourdieu (1930 - 2002) about Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations
  • Anna Leander 39. Hedley Bull (1932 - 1985)
  • Robert Ayson 40. Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941 - 2013): A Woman's Refuge, Baghdad, Summer 2015
  • Caroline Kennedy-Pipe Conclusions
  • The Editors

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